skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar story here; my only guess (which I don't want to verify in case it jinxes it) is that I've been on the same name and netblock for an extremely long time (~20 years) and so I'm grandfathered in to a lot of undocumented IP rules at the big houses. Long may it continue.
When bush pushed to start the NATO process in 2007, the ambassador to Russia said it would lead to war and strategists agreed.

I agree NATO membership is beneficial for basically all its members. It provides a great deal of security to be under the US umbrella. NATO aspirations did not work out well for Georgia.
Yes they specialize in BS
FTA

>Rather than buying what’s deemed the world’s safest asset to balance out her equity and credit holdings, Appio is adding gold

Not sure I understand the argument for investing in gold in general. How is it different than investing in any other industrial input material beyond the added risk from speculation?
Name one new location in Europe since the end of the Cold War that hosts US nuclear weapons. Just one.
Ask HN: Collaborative learning apps/books with kids
My kid (6yo) and I just completed reading.com which is an app that has the parent and child sit next to each other and learn to read via 99 lessons. It is very similar to a book called "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons" which is where we started.

Regardless, this was a great bonding experience. And now that it is over my kid is requesting we continue to do something similar together.

Does anyone have any recommendations on applications or books that have a sort of side-by-side parent/child pedagogy with some linear progression? We would be open to any topic.

These are the features that made it work for us:

- Linear progression (Lesson 1, Lesson 2, etc)

- Side-by-side (not some app they play on their own)

- Compact (we might do it while bored waiting for a sibling activity so iPad or single book ideal)

Thanks!
How a pots and pans salesman invented an industry that is now worth $74T
This is the correct use of tarot, IMO
As pointed out in a sibling comment, the result set is also encrypted, so matches with abuse images, even if there are some in Apple's POI database, can't be used to implement the scheme as you suggest.
I don't understand why this feature needs to exist at all. Ostensibly, if someone wanted to use this, they also have location data on, the phone not only knows its location but also which direction it is pointed via the magnetometer.

I understand it is doing feature matching on the image, but if you were taking a picture of the statue of liberty, the phone would already know that from existing signals.
It’s pretty common, cannons or guns shooting blanks.

My son actually has a temporary gig for the next 3 months at a major U.S. airport where he’s tasked with flying a drone to scare birds away as needed.
Oops, I meant 25 million people. Point still stands.
From the best snl skit

* Whore ads for $100

* The penis mightier

“I’ll play your little game trebek!”

Idk what my point is really. That high and low art share the same source, possibly, but I 100% retconned.
Could be worse. There was an accident in Brazil a while ago in which a runaway plane almost hit a gas station.
“Beware the Hun in the Sun” is apparently what Allied pilots used to say.

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/archive-exhibitions/wo...
The line is very simple - my content stays on device, secured (locally) with the current modern and practical tools.
> If you train an LLM that only you use, from books you own, I don't see how that is actually illegal.

But it won't be functional, because Large Language Models requires far more samples than your private library, at least if you want it to do things that you couldn't solve with a much simpler deterministic search.

For example, usefully extending the document "Which book had the sarcastic one-armed antagonist?" with another sentence that happens to also be the answer.
Yes this is better than upload the entire photo. Just like virus scan can be done entirely on device, can flagging be local?. If homeomorphic encryption allows similarity matching, does not seem entirely private. Can people be matched?
How are people finding the job that isn't publicly posted; and how does foreign organized crime (seek to) benefit from applying?
They are not optimized for inference vs RTX GPUs.
> I take specific steps to verify I am using that trusted stack

I would be very interested to hear what these specific steps are. How do you make sure that this TLS stack really does implement the RFC? How do you know that each connection is indeed encrypted, and it doesn't start sending plaintext after, say 30 days of usage?
> declarations of war are very much not outdated, insofar as everyone _avoids_ those terms

One, sure, declarations of war aren’t academically outdated. By that measure neither are colonialism or chattel slavery, which are also avoided in modern speechwriting.

Two, we absolutely say we’re going to war with each other. We just don’t formally declare it. Declarations of war are obsolete, I’d be hard pressed to find anyone serious in government or international relations who claims otherwise.
Do you use EViL mode?
If you want to wait for over a year to get your model trained (vs 7 days).
If your core concern is privacy, surely you'd be fine with "no bytes ever leave my device". But that's a big-hammer way to ensure no one sees your private data. What about external (iCloud/general cloud) storage? That's pretty useful, and if all your data is encrypted in such a way that only you can read it, would you consider that private? If done properly, I would say that meets the goal.

What if, in addition to storage, I'd like to use some form of cloud compute on my data? If my device preprocesses/anonymizes my data, and the server involved uses homomorphic encryption so that it also can't read my data, is that not also good enough? It's frustrating to see how much above and beyond Apple has taken this simple service to actually preserve user privacy.

I get that enabling things by default triggers some old wounds. But I can understand the argument that it's okay to enable off-device use of personal data IF it's completely anonymous and privacy preserving. That actually seems very reasonable. None of the other mega-tech companies come close to this standard.
They don’t send the photo. They send some encrypted metadata to which some noise is added. The metadata can be loosely understood as “I have this photo that looks sort of like this”. Then the server takes that encrypted data from the anonymized device and responds something like “that looks like the Eiffel Tower” and sends it back to the device. The actual photo never goes to the server.
Uh, no. That would be WAY too expensive and difficult to automate. They run off of propane. Search your favorite engine for “bird scare cannon”. Or buy this one off amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/SlavicBeauty-Wildlife-Propane-Scarecr...
> Also, anecdotally, I’ve never had a sonicare toothbrush battery die. They still last weeks after many many years of use.

It’s the same for me, the whole toothbrush died two times shortly after warranty ended, with the battery having no issues. Not touching sonicare ever again. The cheap honeywell Chinese whatever brand is far more reliable for a small fraction of the price.
My also still living father born in 1945 in the south didn’t live under this after the 60s or so. So how do you explain the gap for the last 65 years?
keep Youtube economically viable... so that creators can get paid.
Sure, but it's more than a promise that they won't look. Apple currently believes it's impossible to look.
This has already happened long ago with Google search results. The first tier of results is won by reasonably well-funded entities that provide a legitimate service, and have the means to optimize the signals feeding the search rankings, putting them higher than the next tier.

The second tier of search results tends to be dominated by imitators that don't really add anything of value (SEO spam, blog posts that tell you how to write a for loop in Ruby despite knowing full well that the reader already had no problem finding that information, etc.)

Then finally at the bottom are the little guys who try their best, but haven't learned yet that it's a waste of time to try to self-publish any content because there's too much actual spam masquerading as content, and Google can't tell the difference.

The search results effectively became a list of content approved by a single publisher (even if automated) rather than a melting pot of freely-expressed ideas.

I sincerely hope that we can prevent the similar nullification of the software developer's career accomplishments as carrying any weight, but I am starting to have doubts. If it even goes as far as the erosion of incentives to accomplish things, then we may actually end up needing that AI to do the work for us, as there will be few people left who give a shit.
If you are on Windows, take a look at https://borg.games/setup (founder here)

We aim at $1200/y for 3090, so around a year given descent electricity prices.

Highly recommend setting a lower power limit (usually 250W for 3090).
There were couple of videos on YouTube outlining how transport driven development makes poor people even more poor. Reasoning is that light rail transport makes housing along it more expensive. It's definitely feels like that in Montreal near REM, although I don't have 'proofs'. Gentrification on steroids kind of reasoning.
The difficulty of verifying the answer isn't-wrong is another important factor. Bad search results are often obvious, but LLM nonsense can have tricky falsehoods.

If a process gives false results half the time, and verifying any result takes half as long as deriving a correct solution yourself... Well, I don't know the limiting sum of the infinite series offhand, but it's a terrible tool.
I recently automated this process, however, in a very different way.

- CLI run for every job you want to apply for (this is important)

- JavaScript (Deno) with Puppeteer to run the JS for the page

- Create a directory for all the artefacts <yyyy-mm-dd-ms-pagetitle>

- Save the webpage link (artefact)

- Take a screenshot of the page (artefact)

- Extract the HTML (artefact)

- Convert HTML to Markdown with a CLI (artefact)

- Send Markdown to the Grok API to extract just the Job Description as Markdown (artefact)

- Send Job Description and Autobiography to Grok API to generate a Resume (artefact)

- Send Job Description and Autobiography to Grok API to generate a Cover Letter (artefact)

- Use pandoc to convert the Markdown Resume and Cover Letter into Open Document Format (LibreOffice) (artefacts)

The important differences here are:

- You need to find the job you are interested in. Why automate this?

- Run the CLI `job-hunter https://job.site/jobid` (50sec runtime)

- Open the ODF documents, review, edit, save (human involved is important)

- Use a bash script running LibreOffice CLI to convert ODF documents to PDF

- Review the PDFs

- Manually click the apply button on the site and upload the documents

I also keep a spreadsheet with the details for each job I apply for so I can track interactions, think CRM for job applications and recruiters. This could be automated, however, I got a job so have lost interest.

Points of interest:

- Markdown is a fantastic format in general, but for LLMs as prompts and documents, it's awesome.

- If you just curl the page html, you don't get the recruiters email addresses in most cases, hence the use of Puppeteer.

- Having all the artefacts saved on disk is important for review before and after the application, including adding notes.

- By using an Autobiography that is extreme in detail, the LLM can add anything and everything about you to the documents.

- Use Grok and support Elon. OpenAI can stick their "Open" where it fits.

- I don't end up having to format the documents that are generated as ODF files, they look great.

I can apply for around 10 to 20 jobs in a day if I try hard. Most of the time it is around 5 because I am doing other things. They are only jobs I'm interested in though, and I can customise the documents. Also, If I am applying for a job that includes AI, I add a note at the bottom stating it has been generated by an LLM and customised.

There's probably more interesting points, but you get the idea.

My TODO list includes a CLI switch to only open the page in a Firefox profile so I can authenticate to the page. This removes the stupid "automate auth on ever job site" issue. Simply authenticate and keep the cookie in the hunter profile.

The repo is private for the time being, but I could make it public.

Edit: formatting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963640

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23955527
The only real requirements to "never use a linked list" are a) use a language where some kind of contiguous-storage-based sequence (array, vector, whatever you want to call it; Python calls it a list, even) is built in (or in the standard library); plus b) not ever need to remove O(1) values from the middle of a sequence in O(1) time while preserving order.

But arguably, a candidate who hasn't ever had to contemplate the concept of "linked list" but can derive the necessary ideas on the spot given the basic design, has some useful talents.
I use the shell a lot every day, mainly bash and some ash (alpine).

Does something like fish make the experience a bit smoother? is it pretty easy to get into?
Not explored myself, but these resources might be a good start:

1. https://www.ibm.com/z/education

2. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/b... (Circa 2020 but a quick spot check seems to show the links are still valid)
* Disclosure: I’m an IBM employee
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031304
So you're securely confident you invented a gotcha statistical test to disprove what you see as other people's delusions and you're enjoying what you feel is the security of that? A position you've arrived at by your own intelligence, yes? So...what are you avoiding in that?

I'm not tryin' to convince you, and I don't care what you believe. Nobody is coming to convince you - except you! - it's your responsibility. Your life. Own it. And... you got it ... try! Just try. Extraordinary conservatism leads to extraordinary ignorance! :) hahaha. Your grasp of stats appears loose if you require such odds to see an effect.

Right now, you're coming at this all wrong! It don't matter what you work in, and it ain't about belief. You look like you're hiding behind priors and statistics. "Extraordinary" depends on your priors. So, your prior beliefs in "the impossibility of golf" are deluding you into thinking you need 18 hole-in-ones to know you can play golf. When there is zero doubt psi/RV is real. All you have to do is try. 1st. Hand. Experience. :) I refer you to my other answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42528680
I googled Chess960 and you just made my day. The one thing I never liked about chess was the opening memorization; what an elegant solution.
Plenty of accounting software that can do multi-tenancy and multi-entity exists that can be self-hosted.

Accounting software is not novel, multi-tenancy and multi-entity is not a novel feature.

There are plenty of accounting platforms that do a lot of this, if not most, and are self hosted or you can run in your own cloud.

Odoo is an easy one that comes to mind, plenty of others.

GNUCash isn't really a business accounting platform.
Between Kagi for ordinary web search and Claude for “complicated questions I don’t know how to phrase for a search engine”, I’m pretty happy right now.

Great job to both organizations!
That only addresses birds on or very near the airport property, and at very low altitudes. It’s not particularly effective, because the birds just move somewhere close by and settle down. It can also be counterproductive, because scaring birds generally causes them to fly. In the air. Where the airplanes are.
This is an incredibly shallow dismissal that states the opposite of Apple's claim with zero evidence or reasoning and hand-waves away the very real and well-researched field of homomorphic encryption.
I’d say very unhinged.
Generally there isn't a huge tradeoff in business software. In games where every CPU cycle counts it's another story. And yes, I have been guilty of writing display code divorced from game logic that was way beyond the scope of what needed to be actually displayed on the screen for a particular situation, and having that over-generalization lead to unacceptable performance drops. So you make a good point.
I don’t understand how any educated man can take a site like this seriously.

AI fanboys are the most easily impressed of all humans.
further reading: xkcd's "A mole of moles" https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
I had similar thoughts about using it for the Quran. I think this highlights you have to be very specific in your use cases especially when expecting an exact response on static text that shouldn't change. This is why I'm trying something a bit different. I've generated embeddings for the Quran and use chromem-go for this. So I'll ask the index the question first based on a similarity search and then feed the results in as context to an LLM. But in the response I'll still sight the references so I can see what they were. It's not perfect but a first step towards something. I think they call this RAG.

What I'm working on https://reminder.dev
The OpenAI announcements seems to lay out a much different separation of operations moving forward:

"Under the proposed structure, the public benefit corporation, which is a for-profit corporate entity, will run and control OpenAI’s operations and business, while the non-profit will hire a leadership team and staff for charitable initiatives in sectors such as healthcare, education and science."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/openai-pl...

The non-profit would be relegated to work off to the side to make it's impact in the world, where the new for-profit corporate entity will just focus on profit.
Remove editorializing ("infamous OOM killer") from malloc man page (2010)
It might be interesting to look up Gateway's mission and see why they are putting it in in orbit around the Moon rather than Earth. I know a major part of it is to learn the lessons needed for a human trip to Mars.

> Not only is it in a weird orbit

Regarding lunar orbits (I don't know about Gateway's orbit):

We are used to relatively stable gravity in Earth orbit, but it is much different out near the Moon: Gravity in cislunar space creates chaotic trajectories due to the three-body problem of Earth, Moon, and the vehicle. Orbits around the Moon are also much less stable than around Earth. There are only a few stable orbits, all below 700 km.

Here's a pretty good resource:

https://www.afrl.af.mil/Portals/90/Documents/RV/A%20Primer%2...
> explain why creating a file takes a page of options?

z/OS dates to an era of bewildering diversity in storage hardware - from punch cards to mag tape to disks with variable length sectors and built-in hardware search mechanisms. All sorts of weirdness by modern standards. Also common at the time was record-oriented files, which are accessed not byte by byte but in a more structured manner. For example records might be 80 characters at a time, corresponding to a punch card image. Record oriented files naturally lend themselves to primitive but fast databases (evolved out of records on punch cards) and that's why mainframe OSes supported them. Similarly, file systems in those days were considered significant overhead so there's provision for raw access by sector so apps can roll their own file systems if necessary. z/OS handles all these odd cases still. And all this needs to be specified in a command language that could be parsed in like 24 KB or however much RAM it was that OS/360 was originally designed to run in...

As the article says "file" is technically not the z/OS term - they're data sets. That might give a hint as to just how divergent z/OS is from just about everything else.

> well Linux is just as complicated.

Linux has less baggage, probably. Also the "worse is better" philosophy of UNIX kept things like quasi-database services out of the OS, for the most part. For comparative purposes check out VMS; it has some of these same features like record-oriented files in a (relatively more) modern design.

> I'm seeing no compelling reason for a developer to bother to learn or use z/OS.

Don't worry your vision is just fine. ;)
To take that literally, I imagine it would be horrifying to know the future in as much detail as you care to ask for, but because it is true, to be unable to change it at all. It would make you an NPC in your own life.
What a shame. It was there for so long that they should have kept it IMO.
Per seats sucks.
Per login with unlimited users is at least a bit more fair
Even if they don't have American nukes behind them?

Given what we've seen in Ukraine, I agree that Eastern European countries can likely take on Russia in conventional warfare. But that's not the only thing on the table.
> If the data is encrypted, does the concern still apply?

Yes! For so many reasons!

If an adversary is able to intercept encrypted communications, they can store it in hopes of decrypting it in the future in the event that a feasible attack against the cryptosystem emerges. I don't know how likely this is to happen against homomorphic encryption schemes, but the answer is not zero.

I'm not suggesting everyone should spend time worrying about cryptosystems being cracked all day long, and I'm not saying Apple's encryption scheme here will prove insecure. Even if this particular scheme is cracked, it's very possible it won't reveal much of great interest anyways, and again, that is simply not the point.

The point is that the correct way to guarantee that your data is private is to simply never transmit it or any metadata related to it over a network in any form. This definitely limits what you can do, but it's a completely achievable goal: before smartphones, and on early smartphones, this was the default behavior of taking pictures with any digital camera, and it's pretty upsetting that it's becoming incredibly hard to the point of being nearly impractical to get modern devices to behave this way and not just fling data around all over the place willy-nilly.

And I know people would like Apple to get credit for at least attempting to make their features plausibly-private, but I feel like it's just the wrong thing right now. What we need today is software that gives agency back to the user, and the first part of that is not sending data off to the network without some form of user intent, without dark patterns to coerce said intent. At best, I can say that I hope Apple's approach to cloud services becomes the new baseline for cloud services, but in my opinion, it's not the future of privacy. The future of privacy is turning the fucking radio off. Why the fuck should we all buy mobile devices with $1000 worth of cutting edge hardware just to offload all of the hard compute problems to a cloud server?

I'd also like to ask a different question: if there's no reason to ever worry about this feature, then why is there even an option to turn it off in the first place?

I worry that what Apple is really doing with pushing out all these fancy features, including their maligned CSAM scanning initiative, is trying to get ahead of regulations and position themselves as the baseline standard. In that future, there's a possibility that options to turn off features like these will disappear.
> As the entire reason for Gateway existing and being where it is is to act as a destination for SLS

I don't think that's true. I've long heard of it as support for surface operations and for preparation (R&D, etc.) for Mars.